Wow. that totally explains why I had a sudden compulsion to pull out my Original Jonny Quest DVD collection. unfortunately, I missed the remake, but I've always been a fan of the original. thoroughly un-PC and hysterical. anyone remember Race Bannon's 'special' friend, sexy spy Jade?

Actually I was gonna reward the Nat 20 as a crit success despite the 25+ DC (BEcause I am old school and think those damn twenties should always be rewarded) He is unfriendly now...BUT he is talking. I probably could have signaled that better.

Still Bart needs to roll 20+ to improve the gnomes attitude ..I think he should leave the persuading up to the rest off us..also I note we have not had much talk among ourselves...time for that to happen I think.

Combination of both. Weekends are hard enough for me to post just due to being out of the house and baby wrangling and THEN add the fact that I am starting to get sick again...in the middle of a course of antibiotics no less, and here we are. I'll have us up to speed today.

Rough. I'm working on a variety of things and with as much rest as a listless toddler affords me I am slowly climbing out of this sinkhole of endless s*&*ty health but it is hard going. I'm getting better but it is taking a long long time. Which probably proves I am suffering from some lingering long term viral infection but to "confirm" that I would have to throw down money I don't have on a chest x-ray which I am trying to avoid if I keep making even minimal progress.

Well my hippie friend I am working with my naturopath on a variety of remedies; including a tincture or two so I am right there with ya ;-P

The two concerns right now are walking pneumonia or whooping cough which is like at an epidemic level amongst adults in WA state....JOY! But I don't have a fever so more likely something viral like the walking pneumonia scenario or something tied to my lifestyle like allergies/diet...which has been something of an issue as I've gotten older.

Devon, just letting you know that on Monday I'm going to be flying to California from Georgia for an educator's conference on Naval Base San Diego and will be there until Friday. Hopefully my ability to post won't be terribly restricted, but if you get to a point in the story where you'd be waiting on me to post, feel free to bot Ajani. If we don't get that far before I leave and you want a direction for him to go in the crew actions, I was hoping to have him try and befriend Caulky the cabin girl next. Thanks!

I want to suggest something that might speed up getting the crew influenced.how about granting a automatic aid another to anyone who makes a crew member friendly for other influence rolls on that NPC..whether they are present or not..that would represent our talking to our friends during the shift and persuading them that the other character isn''t such a bad person.

I'll meet you here: As soon as someone gets an NPC to helpful everyone else in the group gets a +2 aid bonus to influence regardless of the person being there, and +2 is the max you can get regardless of the number of you there are that the person is helpful to. Sort of a "I know you guys say he is okay but he seems like such a jerk..." I don't think I can go much farther than that as there is a decent span of time to get people persuaded to you and certain narrative items get sticky if everyone on board loves you no matter what. Seem a decent compromise?

Note that some of you have ".5" in certain ratings. this is my way of signaling that you have made a RP advancement that affects their relationship with you more than just the score.

For instance: Bart and Shortstone aren't exactly getting along but his superior diplomacy roll was as much as Bart could ever hope to "give" the gnome as far as being decent and the gnome noticed that.

I wanted to find a way to note RP rewards and superior rolls, let me know if there is any confusion.

It's your game, Dread Captain. However you want to run your ship is how it get's run as far as I'm concerned. If you want to give us a challenge, I welcome it. If you want to help out the fact that poor, ole' Bart's kind of a D@&*#-bag and nobody likes him much, be my guest.

2. In the OOC here let me know a good color for your characters, I usually do color icons instead of letters.

3. Voodoo, how would you like me to handle pauses of more than 24 hours, should I bot you or should I have you hold actions? Just want to make the best choice to your preference is all in case you find yourself without access.